Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-02-03
MISSING LINKS.

II is believed that heChinese in Cali
fornia salt from $1,000 10 $1,000 in
silver dollars every week.
Moro than $4,000. 600 feet Of lumber
has been used in the construction of
saowsheds on the Northern Pacific road.
Fees paid the lawyers in the Morgan
will contest in New York amount to
100000. Tie estate is worth $1,000
600.
The Queen of Roumana is daughter
of the Prince Won WED and a grandnleee
of Emperor William. She is decidedly
literary in her tastes.
There arc 2.127 pensioners in North
Carolina, the smallest number in any
state of the union. They relieve. the
government oil $50 900 Annually.
Out West il is proposed 10 have bal
lot-boxes in q railway car, so that eouu-
try voters living along the road need
not be obliged 10 drive 50 far.
A sign OF COMMISSIONERS from Anglo
mania appears in New YORK, where
"habit MAKER announces that be Is
prepared TO furnish English clotlgs
with an American tone.
A Pennsylvania coal-opcrator has
employed oaipetcnt surgeon 10 lecture
to his miners on the method of pro-
cedure in the many emergencies that
arise from mine accidents.
"A man said to me the other night,
remarked Clergyman. ~ would not
have missed your sermon for $50, and
.i.if
that man put in penny.
Three men in F.agsiaif. A. T., tolled
all one night to get barrel supposed TO
contain whisky out Of Il cellar and
away TO their camp Wnen they tap
ped it they found That il contained kero-
sene oil.
A New York physician having direct
cd one of his patients 10 battle wound
in tepld water, the patient seat his little
girl to the drug store with note say
ing: Please sell bearer one-half pint
OF lepld water"
The Emperor OF Austria, vino is a
great smoker. has been ordered by the
doctors to give mp tue fragrant weed.
They attribute his nearalgi;. to il His
Majesty was IN the habit Of smoking
twenty cigars daily
The official Investigations made in
Prussia relative 10 the CAUSES OF mine
explosions show, among other things,
that many EXPLOSIONS attributed 10 fire
damp. or oulbUrsls OF g#s. arc really
due to the fine coal ,itlsi Ia mines
Brooches representing IN oyster shell.
upon which rests tiny crab in red
enamel, are bizarre fancies OF the
hour. A realistic hair-pin is pea pod
of frosted gold half open. displayinr
nine pearl peas An enam led snail
nips one of the peas.
The telescope for the Lick O5serva-
tory is to be 81 feet long and ~ inches
in diameter, aud will co.., 1854, $50 Ii
will be 50 deicalely adjusted mat it caa
be manipulated by the observer at the
eve end, where he will have command
of all its motions.
A new material this sessoa has been
successfully intt3duesfi as railroad
cloth. 1t is described as heavy ribbed
and very soft and = very stylish Tor
jackets rs well as NANTES. No demoi-
selle of the times should be without one
of these railroad wraps
Louisville, Ky, is said 10 nave social
rules that are rcmarSd5la Tor their
laxity Almost Any man with Il grutle-
manly appearaace and ~ood address
can with little effort get inlo society
there; and the Young women are pros
teeied very little BY their mo hers.
In Washington dwell two men who
own so much bric-a-brac that .hev have
moved into larger house 10 accom-
modale it. Among other rare ih,ngs is
screen, such rs Is used ~ eastern
harems. made of carved wood. with
curious little windows which opcn and
shut like doors.
Therc Is Il very mean man ia Port
land, Ore. He keeps a DiE $40 in the
,cnter of the city. Several nights ago
a special policeman found the store
door unlocked, anil sent hack to the
merchants house to notify him. Tho
merchant wilked down and locked the
door. but LEI, tao policeman to pay the
nackman.
The King OF !s.mbod,l. according to
the correspondent OF PdriS journal,
has 800 wives. chosen trcm the hand
soonest women in fhe whole country.
The entire population a,li territory be-
long 10 the king. All TIE Cambodians
are the kings carmen or slaves, and
pay him rents The ting himself be-
longs to the French X .S!dcnt-General.
As an evidence of the truth of the
assertion that many Young Mormon
children are taught tke ari Of perjury
from the tims they begin 10 talk. y Salt
Lake gentleman who is familiar with
the facts says ;iiat lie knows OF q little
being asked what he would say ii the
deputies came, answered., y wouid say
my papa dead
A Napa. Cal, man thought he saw n
sea serpent in the river there. but il was
only solid mass OF little fishes, each
about an inch and half long. The
school was about fifty yards long and u
yard wide, and headed up stream. The
commotion they made was caused by
hundreds of large fishes that were con-
tinually throwing themselves among
aud eating up the little ones.
George Greer, of Santa Maria, Tex,
dreamed three times rhat box con-
tanning $4,000 in gold was buried under
ono corner OF his house, and had 4
party OF friends holp him remove the |
building and search for the treasure. |
After digging down several feet and |
finding nothing he gave il up. Il cost
him $500 to- have the house returned to |
its place and his friends cared" for. /
n. Rouvier declined 10 be the sue
cessor of Paul Bert in Tonquin because
he could not get The lile-insuranGe cosl-
pancs to issue him policy to 90 there
NJ. Grevy tried hard 10 persuade him to |
go. Only think" he said, you viii |
have $4,000 year salary, $4,000 for |
your funeral. and 81, 400 Il year pension
Tor your widow" But even that pre-
Of lae case did not prevail.
There lives in Portland, Me-, II. /
Francois Radoux, who was born in |
Brittany in 1880 lie was soldier of |
for years; was captured by |
the English and given his freedom for |
saving an English officer from drown
ing. lie came to- this country the year
after the battle Of Waterloo. He mar
ried for his second wife Susan Dingley, /
an aunt of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He |
is in good health and plays both the
piano and violin.
At Apalachcola, Fla, is on exhibi- /
ton a curiosity in the shape Of sponge. I
There are fifteen prongs of hollow
sponge reaching out like the arms OF